Senior Named Solutions Engineer, UKI · Cloudflare

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:41:44 GMT
Engineering

Cloudflare · In-Office · onsite

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

As a Senior Named Solutions Engineer, you will be responsible for collaborating with clients from early-stage ideation through to planning for production. This role requires sitting alongside our peers in our clients, contributing your energy, ideas, and opinion on solving the hard problems we face in our industry today.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with clients from early-stage ideation through to planning for production

Sit alongside our peers in our clients, contributing your energy, ideas, and opinion on solving the hard problems we face in our industry today

Develop adjacent technology expertise as well as mastering key skills relating to technical and industry advocacy on behalf of our clients

Offer good practice guidance and adopting a deploy-to-production mindset, where it is as much about the operational process as it is about the product

Requirements

10+ years of experience in the IT industry (mid-level or senior engineering level experience)

Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritise between competing demands

Demonstrating empathy with customers and quickly identifying challenges and pain points they face

Understanding of “how the internet works”

Who We Are

The problems that our clients face are both diverse and unique - which is reflected in how we think about our Solution Engineering team. Building on the benefit of the hive-mind, our SE team is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from end-customers to other vendors, Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering.

In short, if we are to solve complex problems we need a diverse, curious and collaborative team. Cloudflare’s mission is one which is both simple and timeless, to help build a better Internet. This requires a broad set of services and associated knowledge of Internet performance and security technology.

We recognise many of our team usually join us with one or two core domains of expertise, however key to success is the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge which is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Showing up in the right-way: bringing a positive attitude, open-minded to new ideas and bringing your energy and ideas to help our clients and our team succeed

Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills

Exposure to emerging technical landscape trends such as machine learning, GenAI, DevOps, security operations etc.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organisations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to